Tie for supporting track-rails.



A. WILLIAMSON.

TIE FOR SUPPORTING TRACK RAILS,

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 22, 1910.

Patented Mar. 7

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ALFRED WILLIAMSON, OF CHAPMAN, ILLINOIS.

TIE FOR SUPPORTING TRACK-RAILS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED WILLIAMSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chapman, in the county of Montgomery and State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ties for SupportingTrack-Rails; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in ties forsupporting track rails and my object is to form the tie of metal orsimilar substances.

A further object is to provide means in tegral with the tie for engagingand retaining the rails in position thereon, and,

A further object is to provide means for clamping said parts intoengagement with the rails.

Other objects and advantages will be hereinafter set forth and pointedout in the specification.

In the accompanying drawings, which are made a part of this application,Figure l is a side elevation of one of the ties, showing the rails inposition thereon. Fig. 2 is a sectional view as seen on line 22, Fig. 1,and, Fig. 3 is a sectional view as seen on line 33, Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar reference numerals designatecorresponding parts throughout the several views, 1 indicates the trackrails, which may be constructed in the usual or any preferred manner,the bases 2 of which are adapted to rest upon my improved form of tie 3.The tie 3 is formed in two sections 4: and 5, said sections when appliedto use paralleling each other, one end of the section at being formedinto a housing 6 to receive the re duced end 7 of the section 5, the endwall of the housing having an opening 8 therethrough, through whichextends a threaded stem 9 projecting from and preferably formed integralwith the reduced end 7, a nut 10 cooperating with the stem. The oppositeend of the section 5 is likewise provided with a housing 11 to receivethe reduced end of the section 4, the end wall of the housing having anopening 12 through which projects the threaded stem 13, extend ing fromthe reduced end of the section 4. This stem receives a nut 14.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 7, 1911.

Application filed November 22, 1910. Serial No. 593,671.

The rails 1 are secured to the sections of the tie by forming anchoringlugs 15 and 1.6 on the section 4 and 17 and 18 on the section 5, eachanchoring lug being of suflicient width to extend substantially the fullwidth of the tie.

The lugs 15 and 16 extend over and engage one edge of the bases of therails, while the lugs 17 and 18 extend over and engage the oppositesides of the bases of the rails, and by turning the nuts onto theirrespective stems 9 and 13, the lugs will be securely clamped intoengagement with the bases of the rails and both rails will be clampedsimultaneously.

In applying the tie to use the nuts are turned to the outer ends of thestems, or entirely removed therefrom, and the sections of the tie movedlongitudinally in opposite directions until the lugs have been separateda suiiicient distance to admit the base of the rail, when the nuts areagain turned onto their respective stems and the lugs drawn intoengagement with the rails, thus securely clamping the rails intoengagement with the tie. The tie may be given additional adjustment tocompensate for any shrinkage of the rails or for expansion thereof andany wear that may occur may be compensated for. It will also be seenthat as the lugs are formed integral with the tie sections, said railswill be securely held against spreading, and, it will likewise be seenthat the ties can be quickly engaged with or disengaged from the tiesand that the usual form of spikes required for securing the rails to theties are dispensed with.

What I claim is:

1. The herein described tie, comprising a pair of sections, each sectionhaving a housing at one end to receive the end of the other section,that end of each section entering the housings having a threaded stemprojecting therefrom, nuts cooperating with said stems and anchoringlugs integral with said sections, the lugs of one section being opposedto the lugs of the opposite section.

2. The herein described tie, comprising a pair of parallel sections,each section having one of its ends provided with a housing to receivethe opposite end of the opposed section, the end walls of the housingshaving openings, stems integral with the ends of the sections enteringthe housings and projecting through said openings, nuts to name to thisspecification in the presence of Y two subscribing Witnesses.

ALFRED VILLIANISON.

\Vitnesses JOHN H. EATON, M. B. KESSINGER.

engage said stems and a pair of anchoring lugs carried by each section,the lugs of one section being opposed to the lugs of the other section,said lugs being substantially the same Width as the combined Width ofthe two sections.

In testimony whereof I have signed my 1 Copies of this patent may beobtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,Washington, D. C.

